Importing Tales of Vesperia (PS3) and Tales of Graces F is about to become a whole lot cheaper. (Though, we’re not exactly sure why you would need to import the latter, at this point.) Japanese retailer Rakuten is listing “PS3 the Best” versions (Japan’s “Greatest Hits”) of both titles to launch on August 2.

During the last update- Until then, I and the rest of the team can understand that the wait has been long. With Tales of Graces F coming out, there are also people who have updated their PS3 beyond a point where they can install a patch for Tales of Vesperia. We cannot release what we have of the script as-is, but we can give you the 360 script, if you’d like to follow along with the game as you play it…When we’re finished the translation, we’ll look into providing our translation scripts in a similar manner for those who have already updated their PS3.

Check out the site if you are interested in that, for those who plan to import soon.

(Sorry if this is not ok to post Sal! If not, feel free to edit that out of my post.) :)

Miranda Lawson

@Zero:I have a PS3 slim 120 gb with a firmware over 40. I heard that the fan translation for Vesperia doesn’t work on a PS3 with a firmware that high. Is this true?

When we’re finished with the translation, we’ll look into providing our translation scripts in a similar manner for those who have already updated their PS3.

Hopefully they find a way to get it working. If not, someone might find a way to do a force firmware rollback on the PS3.

Miranda Lawson

@Zero: I don’t think that I would want to downgrade my PS3 because I have Mass Effect 2 and Final Fantasy 13-2 downloads that I wouldn’t want to get rid of. Wait a minute are you actually one of the people that are making the fan translation for Vesperia? It must take you guys a while to make it, but I will be happy in the end if the translation patch works on all firmware.

Zero

Hmm the post I made here was caught or removed by a bot or program or something. (Or an admin removed it.)

If so, just respond so I know it wasn’t a glitch. I had a url link in it, and talked a bit about the fan tl project.

Sal Romano

@Zero: It was filtered through our spam catcher for some reason. I’ve found it and pulled it out! ;]

I’m not one of the great people working on it, sorry. I just got the information from the website itself. (As much as I would love to help those amazing people, I don’t have much to offer in terms of help.)

The saves for any games on the PS3 are on the hard drive. Just off the top of my head… a possible little trick would be to buy a cheap hard drive and swap them out temporarily. If someone found a way to rollback firmware, you could use the spare hard drive to play Vesperia.

The catch is fairly simple, you would only be able to play vesperia while having the PS3 set up this way. When finished, one would update to the latest firmware and put the original hard drive back in the PS3.

During the stage of having the firmware rolled back, you would likely not be able to sign into PSN, and even if one did, accessing anything would probably be a no-go because of old firmware.

More or less – the PS3 would become a “Tales of Vesperia only” console for a short time.

I have no idea if someone has written code to force firmware rollback, or install old PS3 firmware. I’m only suggesting that using my trick above could possibly work with the old firmware.

sophie_lhant

Asia region of Tales of Vesperia available at playasia. Cheaper than the Japanese region version. No differences between them, neither.